Vorlesungsverzeichnis
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Veranstaltungen von Prof. Dr. Emer O'Sullivan
Lehrveranstaltungen
Literary Topics and Texts (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan
Termin:
14-täglich | Dienstag | 08:00 - 12:00 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 5.111 Seminarraum
Inhalt: This seminar is tailored to the needs of future teachers at Berufsbildende Schulen by focussing on canonical and other narrative, dramatic and multimodal texts from the school curricula. It provides a firm grounding in theoretical and analytical approaches, addressing literary, cultural and social aspects of the texts in question. We will decide in the seminar from a range of narrative, dramatic and multimodal texts which specific ones we will focus on.
Picturing Alice in Wonderland: illustrations and movies (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan
Termin:
wöchentlich | Mittwoch | 08:15 - 09:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 5.310 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Lewis Carroll famously wrote in the opening pages of "Alice in Wonderland": "'and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures or conversations!"'. Since then countless illustrators from John Tenniel through Salvador Dalí to Rebecca Dautremer have created their own pictorial interpretation of the novel in their illustrations, and numerous film-makers, one of the most recent being Tim Burton, have created their version as moving pictures on the screen. This seminar - after engaging with Carroll's novel itself - will examine prominent examples of both forms of interpretation and adaptation to see what principles of interpretation and production can be identified.
Satire (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Emer O'Sullivan
Termin:
wöchentlich | Dienstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 14.10.2024 - 31.01.2025 | C 5.325 Seminarraum
Inhalt: Contemporary commentators have remarked that satire, in the age of Trump is dead, as “telling it straight is already crazy”. We will test the validity of this hypothesis at the end of our seminar after engaging with theories of satire and its various medial forms. Satire is a powerful rhetorical device which holds up to ridicule human vices, follies, and shortcomings, making them seem absurd, sometimes even hilarious, often with the aim of wider social or political criticism. Its entertainment factor means it can reach a wide audience. It is a powerful tool of dissent as it usually works by implication rather than being explicit. It genealogy goes back to the ancient Greeks, today it is found in almost every medial form. In this seminar we will look at the origin and development of satire, identifiying and analysing techniques and strategies in a wide range of media and forms such as historical and contemporary narrative texts (Swift: A Modest Proposal, David Eggers: The Circle), songs/music videos (Tom Lehrer, Bo Burnham, Jan Böhmermann), magazines (Mad), picturebooks (David Macaulay’s Baa), film (Sacha Baron Cohen: Borat), operetta (Gilbert and Sullivan), political cartoons, advertising, tv-shows (e.g. The Colbert Report, Magazin Royale), cartoons (South Bank) etc. Students are very welcome to suggest any primary material they would like to examine in the seminar.